Book Summary
Charlotte's mother is secretly involved in the Women's Suffrage Movement, even though Charlotte's father objects to it. When Charlotte is inspired by her mother and another suffragist, Mrs. Pierce, to have a protest at her school, Charlotte puts her mother's suffrage work in jeopardy, yet she sparks the spirit and forges the ties that will allow her to vote someday herself. 

Reproducibles
Worksheet 1—Fact and opinion
Worksheet 2—Context clues 

Lesson Objectives

Comprehension
You will likely address a number of comprehension skills as students work to understand the text, for example, students could discuss point of view. The targeted comprehension strategy for this lesson is: identifying fact and opinion. 

Word Work

Content Vocabulary
afoot
beleaguered
brownstones
corsets
dawdle
gadding
mentholatum
namesake
paddy wagon
pestering
prejudices
ratification
serviceable
suffrage
unseemly
vaudeville

Context Clues
Understand how context can help readers understand meanings of difficult words

Grammar
Understand how to identify and form both regular and irregular past tense verbs